(Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Nov.2020) — Presidential hopefully Gustavo Petro tops a recent opinion poll in Colombia, leading with 25.9% popularity in the Andean country. Colombians were surveyed by polling company...
(Frontera, 27.Nov.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation and CGX Energy Inc, the joint venture partners, announced their constructive and collaborative discussions with the government of Guyana have been concluded with respect...
(AP, 27.Nov.2020) — Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela were found guilty of corruption charges by a judge Thursday and immediately sentenced to prison, dashing hopes...
(Reuters, 26.Nov.2020) — Mexican oil giant Pemex is about to start the process of contracting an oil hedge for 2021, a senior source at the company told Reuters, after the...
(Bloomberg, 26.Nov.2020) — A director at the trading arm of Mexico’s state oil company was asked to resign after authorizing payments under a profit-sharing plan, according to a person familiar...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Nov.2020) — The webinar will highlight issues around developing wind resources and panelists will discuss developing wind projects in different parts of the world, financing and available...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Nov.2020) — Foreign exchange rate and energy related briefs from OPEC oil producer Venezuela related to the rising Bolivar currency as well as comments from President Nicolas...
(Petrobras, 25.Nov.2020) — Petrobras announced its Board of Directors approved, in a meeting held today, the Strategic Plan for the five-year period 2021-2025 (SP2021-25). The plan maintains the five pillars...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Nov.2020) — Heard on the street from Venezuela related to a supposed oil spill in Morrocoy National Park as well as word of commercial developments in Los...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Nov.2020) — Wilson Zelaya Prudencio, the new executive president of Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), eyes a short list of projects as he...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Nov.2020) — EP PetroEcuador general manager Ricardo Merino supervised scheduled maintenance work at the non-catalytic units 2 and 3 of the Esmeraldas Refinery. Work on the units...
(Petrobras, 24.Nov.2020) — Petrobras launched the “More Value Program” (Programa Mais Valor), a new financial solution tool for suppliers. The pilot started last week and, in November 30th, the tool...
(Petrobras, 24.Nov.2020) — Petrobras informs that the Petrobras Day will be held in Portuguese on 30 November 2020 and in English on 1 December, when it will present its 2021-25...
(Petrobras, 24.Nov.2020) — Petrobras, in relation to the news published in the media, regarding the divestment of the Papa-Terra field, Campos Basin, clarifies that the stage of receiving binding offers...
(Reuters, 24.Nov.2020) — Activist hedge fund Elliott Management Corp has invested at least $30 million in Cataleya Energy, a small firm focused on oil exploration in Guyana, the world's newest...
(Venture Global, 23.Nov.2020) — Venture Global LNG, Inc. announces that KBR has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract as lead contractor for Phase 1 of the Plaquemines...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Nov.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) is turning its attention to the Andean country’s northern Amazonian region with the drilling of the...
(Petrobras, 23.Nov.2020) — Petrobras’ wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Global Finance B.V. (PGF) has delivered notices of redemption to the holders of the outstanding 5.375% Global Notes due 2021 (“5.375% Notes”), 8.375%...
(Reuters, 21.Nov.2020) — Nigeria has slipped into a recession after its gross domestic product contracted for the second consecutive quarter, according to data released on Saturday which showed the impact...
(Talos, 20.Nov.2020) — Talos Energy Inc. is the apparent high bidder on two deepwater blocks in the recent Outer Continental Shelf ("OCS") Federal Lease Sale 256, held on 18 November...
(Seadrill, 20.Nov.2020) — “Seadrill continues to play its part in establishing a more viable market environment - taking action on scrapping rigs, reducing the cost of operation and support activities,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Nov.2020) — Bolivia’s state oil and gas entity Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) named engineer Wilson Zelaya Prudencio as the company’s new executive president. Zelaya was born...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s state-controlled oil and gas entity YPF Sociedad Anónima (YPF) acquired its own shares in the market (articles 64 and related articles of the Capital...
(Reuters, 19.Nov.2020) — Venezuelan authorities arrested oil workers' union leader Eudis Girot, other union officials said on Thursday, as the government's crackdown on dissent at troubled state oil company Petroleos...
(ReneSola, 19.Nov.2020) — ReneSola Ltd, a leading fully integrated solar project developer, and Innova, a company that invests in and operate a diversified portfolio of UK renewable energy assets, with...
(Petrobras, 19.Nov.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 23 October 2020, informs the beginning of the non-binding phase regarding the sale of all of its stakes in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Nov.2020) — EP PetroEcuador general manager Ricardo Merino and Esmeraldas prefect Roberta Zambrano participated in the start of road rehabilitation work along the Vuelta Larga, Tabiazo and...
(Panasonic, 18.Nov.2020) — The companies will work together towards summer 2021 to assess the market for lithium-ion batteries in Europe and mature the business case for a green battery business...
(Bloomberg, 18.Nov.2020) — Chevron’s willingness to keep a foothold in oil-rich Venezuela will now be a thorny political issue for President-elect Joe Biden to sort out. The U.S. Treasury Department...
(Envision, 18.Nov.2020) — Envision Energy, a leading green tech company today announced the commissioning of Vientos Del Secano, a 50-megawatt wind farm in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. This...
(Sempra, 18.Nov.2020) — Sempra Energy announced that its board of directors has declared a $1.045 per share quarterly dividend on the company's common stock, which is payable 15 January 2021,...
(Petrobras, 18.Nov.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 19 November 2019, informs the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), in a Court session held on this date,...
(Westmount, 17.Nov.2020) — Westmount Energy Ltd., further to the announcement by Ratio Petroleum Energy Limited Partnership dated today, that the Tanager-1 well, offshore Guyana, has been reported as an oil...
(Sempra Energy, 17.Nov.2020) — Sempra Energy announced that its subsidiary ECA Liquefaction (ECA LNG), a joint venture between Sempra LNG and Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova), has reached a...
(Frontera, 17.Nov.2020) — Frontera Energy Corporation, Cenit Transporte y Logística de Hidrocarburos S.A.S. and Oleoducto Bicentenario de Colombia S.A.S. separately announced they have reached an agreement for the joint filing...
(Argus, 17.Nov.2020) — Argentina's government is offering hard currency access to energy companies that sign up to a new program designed to stimulate natural gas production through state-subsidized wellhead prices....
(Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Nov.2020) — Opec producer Venezuela continues to support a three month extension of production levels of 7.7 million barrels per day. “Venezuela ratifies its commitment to continue...
(AES, 17.Nov.2020) — The AES Corporation announced an agreement with Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) to merge the sPower development platform, a leading independent solar developer in the US, with...
(BP, 17.Nov.2020) — BP Energy Partners, LLC (BPEP) announced acquisition of Encino Environmental Services, LLC, an environmental consulting and services business that enables compliance with government regulations along with providing...
(Petrobras, 17.Nov.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 25 September 2020, informs the beginning of the non-binding phase regarding the sale of all of its stakes in...
(Petrobras, 16.Nov.2020) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of 50% of its stakes in the concessions of Marlim, Voador, Marlim Leste and Marlim Sul,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Nov.2020) — Congressional President Manuel Merino De Lama resigned as Peru’s interim presidency within less than a week of assuming the power void created by the impeachment...
(Reuters, 13.Nov.2020) — Mexico will give the local unit of U.S.-based Sempra Energy an export permit for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in northwest Mexico, as long as the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Nov.2020) — The new $34.3mn La Concordia-Pedernales transmission line in Ecuador will enhance productive, tourist and residential development in the Manabí province. Of the amount, the Inter-American...
(Nucor, 13.Nov.2020) — Nucor Corporation signed a 15-year Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) with EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) for 250 megawatts (MWac) of new solar energy in Texas. The...
(Total, 12.Nov.2020) — Total signed a strategic framework agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), to explore joint research, development and deployment partnership opportunities in the areas of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Nov.2020) — Brazil’s National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP by its Portuguese acronym) will hold its second permanent bid round where it will offer 14...
(Houston American Energy, 12.Nov.2020) — Houston American Energy Corp. announced certain management changes. James Schoonover, the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, has advised the company that he would be...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Nov.2020) — Ecuador’s state oil and gas company EP PetroEcuador awarded an $54.8mn insurance to Hispana de Seguros to cover all oil risks as well as maritime...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Nov.2020) — Production from Ecuador’s state entity in charge of oil and gas exploration and exploitation, PetroAmazonas EP, reached 408,163 barrels per day (b/d) on 12 November...
(Petrobras, 12.Nov.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 28 September 2020, announced its Executive Board approved a new change in the deadline for certain conditions set forth...
(Reuters, 11.Nov.2020) — Colombia will hold a second bidding round to potentially grant contracts to companies interested in exploring non-conventional oil and gas deposits, using techniques like fracking, the National...
(Petrobras, 11.Nov.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on 21 and 29 July, 26 August and 9 October 2020, hereby informs that a judicial decision was issued at...
(Pampa Energía, 11.Nov.2020) — Pampa Energía S.A., the largest independent energy integrated company in Argentina, with active participation in the country's electricity and gas value chain, announces the results for...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Nov.2020) — Operations at Peru LNG, the company that runs South America’s first gas liquefaction plant located in Pampa Melchorita, have yet to be affected by the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s state-controlled YPF announced operating and financial results for the third quarter of 2020. What follows is a summary of key data. MAIN HIGHLIGHTS OF...
(Reuters, 11.Nov.2020) — At least 18 oil tankers are expected to load oil for export from Venezuela in the coming weeks, according to tracking data and internal documents from state-run...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s state owned oil and gas entity YPF will face around $8.05bn in debt payments between the fourth quarter of 2020 and 2026 and beyond....
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Nov.2020) — ExxonMobil Guyana recently conducted maintenance on some oil spill response equipment located offshore the small South America country. “This maintenance and training activity involved deploying...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Nov.2020) — Briefs on Argentina and Chile related to IMF officials in Argentina to renegotiate around $44bn in debt and tensions rise in Chile over pension reform....
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Nov.2020) — Venezuela, home to the largest crude oil reserves and sizeable natural gas reserves, reported total oil exports of $984.9bn between 1999 and the first quarter...
(Tullow, 10.Nov.2020) — Tullow Oil plc announce the sale of its assets in Uganda to Total has completed with $500mn consideration received earlier today. Tullow is also due to receive...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Nov.2020) — Ratio Suriname, an affiliate of Tel Aviv-based Ratio Petroleum announced the decision to drill the Goliathberg Voltzberg North (GVN) prospect in Suriname’s Block 47 during...
(Braskem, 10.Nov.2020) — Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and leading producer of biopolymers in the world, announces its latest sustainability ambitions to significantly expand its efforts to...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Nov.2020) — Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency will conduct a second round for the award of Special Research Project Contracts (CEPI by its Spanish acronym). “The purpose of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 10.Nov.2020) — The government of Guyana, the newest petro-state in the Latin America and Caribbean region, announced it has made strides in extracting better benefits from oil...
(Equinor, 10.Nov.2020) — Equinor has, on behalf of the partners ExxonMobil and Petrogal Brasil, awarded Baker Hughes, Halliburton and Schlumberger contracts for drilling and well services on the Bacalhau field...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Nov.2020) — Argentina’s YPF plans to drill 24 wells in the Rincón del Mangrullo Block at two unconventional developments between now and 2021. The developments on the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Nov.2020) — Peru’s Congress is eyeing presidential elections in 2021 amid turmoil created by the impeachment of President Martín Vizcarra Cornejo owing to corruption allegations. Peru’s Congress...
(Reuters, 9.Nov.2020) — Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA is set to receive binding offers on Dec. 10 for its Rio Grande do Sul state refinery Refap, with Indian conglomerate Essar Group...
(Sempra Energy, 9.Nov.2020) — Sempra Energy and the Salk Institute today announced a new project to advance plant-based carbon capture and sequestration research, education and implementation to help address the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Nov.2020) — Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra was impeached over the weekend after a vote over corruption allegations. Manuel Merino, the head of Peru’s Congress, will assume the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Nov.2020) — Venezuela’s state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) dispatched 60 vehicles to the Paraguaná Refining Center (CRP by its Spanish acronym), located in the state...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 8.Nov.2020) — The Board of Directors of PetroAmazonas EP, led by the Ecuador's Minister of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources René Ortiz and the Chairman of the...
(AES, 6.Nov.2020) — The AES Corporation reported financial results for the quarter ended 30 September 2020. "I am pleased to announce that we have already achieved two of our top...
